Generes v. Campbell
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: Campbell sued Generes, November, 1868, in the court below, as indorser of a promissory note, given as the price of certain slaves, aud executed at New Orleans April 4,1861, payable in that cityr two years after date, at the office of Abat, Generes & Co. The petition averred that when the note became due, April 7th, 1863, there was a civil war existing in Louisiana and other States of the Union;…
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: Campbell sued Generes, November, 1868, in the court below, as indorser of a promissory note, given as the price of certain slaves, aud executed at New Orleans April 4,1861, payable in that cityr two years after date, at the office of Abat, Generes & Co. The petition averred that when the note became due, April 7th, 1863, there was a civil war existing in Louisiana and other States of the Union; that all intercourse between New Orleans and the place of the then residence of the plaintiff, to wit, the parish of St.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
This is a writ of error to. the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. The plaintiff' in error was the defendant in the court below. The action was brought against him as the indorser of a promissory note. The parties, pursuant to the act of Congress of March 3d, 1865, filed a written stipulation waiving a jury, and the cause was tried by the court. A judgment was rendered against the defendant. He took a bill of exceptions. No facts were specially fouud by the court.
The act referred to provides that the finding of the court upon the facts — which finding may be…
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